Charles Whiting married Nellie Walker in Vincennes, Knox Co., Indiana, in 1896, and disappeared shortly thereafter. He was said to have been born in England, about 1868, but this may not be true. As a travelling vaudeville performer, he supposedly used the stage name Charles LaFord. A family scrapbook contains the obituary of a vaudeville performer known as Charles LaFord, but this man was born as Charles Loren Ford in 1893 in Parker City, Randolph Co., Indiana, the son of Henry Ford and Emma (Hardin) Ford. He could not possibly be the same person as Charles Whiting, because he was only 3 years old when Charles Whiting married. I would appreciate ANY information about these two men. Is there a family or other connection between them? Could Charles Loren Ford's father, Henry Ford, have been the same person as Charles Whiting? He, too, abandoned a wife and children and disappeared, allegedly to Kansas, then Texas.

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